"The discovery of a new wild coronavirus that has the same freak mutation as Covid-19
is being hailed by some scientists as proof Sars-CoV-2 was not made in a lab."
"Researchers in China have found another bat coronavirus that possesses a furin cleavage site
— the part that made Covid-19 so good at infecting people."
"The furin has been one of the focal points of debate about Covid-19's origin, with some experts claiming it could only have been acquired through lab experiments."
"Since then, studies have shown that wild coronaviruses can acquire the structure naturally
— but the newly-discovered virus has another coincidental quirk."
"The virus — known as TyRo-CoV-162275 — is up to 98 percent identical to coronaviruses found in pangolins,
the animal long suspected of passing Covid-19 to humans."
(My Opinion) : It has taken over three years (2019-2023) for a naturally occurring virus, similar to covid, to have been found by Chinese scientists.
The article claims " Chinese scientists find a NEW bat coronavirus linked to pangolins that has same freak mutation as Covid
- and some experts say it shoots down the lab leak theory"
Better to have allowed the international scientific community conduct independent research rather than an excuse for china to have prevented any unbiased investigation.
There was an international investigation, but the selection of who was to conduct the investigaation was hand-picked by China,
and included the director of EcoHealth Alliance, the organization through which the Wuhan Institute of Virology received funding for "gain-of-function" research.
Better to have allowed an investigation right from the beginning of the pandemic, rather than three years late.